Christmas Lights

I've been reading and hearing a lot of news recently about these folks who put up enormous Christmas light displays and, as I am wont to do, I feel I must comment.

As pretty as such displays can be (and most of them aren't much more than huge gaudy messes of lights), I find these things extremely wasteful. Unless these folks have enormous solar batteries that are powering these displays (which I sincerely doubt), they're doing nothing but wasting energy in an attempt to one-up their neighbors. And in the process, they're tying up traffic around their houses, annoying their neighbors, creating fire hazards, and doing nothing to improve the spirit of the holiday.

In my opinion, they're nothing more than selfish displays of "Look at me" and "I'm better than Jones, down the street!"